discoveries in science

Highlights twenty-five notable achievements in science, medicine, and industry and the individuals responsible, including Alexander Graham Bell, Madame Curie, and Samuel F. B. Morse.

Fifty stories of scientists, their work, and their discoveries, together with library research activities, discussion questions, and suggestions for additional topics to explore.

Describes how a wide variety of things such as nursery rhymes, the national anthem, anesthesia, cellophane, raisins, and dynamite came into being.

Profiles fifty accidental inventions, such as the ice cream soda, nitrous oxide, fingerprinting, and dynamite, explaining how they came to be.

Learn about many different scientific principles and facts through activities and craft projects.

Provides information about some of the world's great inventions and discoveries, discussing how they were made and the ways they affected people's lives.